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2020-04-09 Government

I spent decades as a covert Klingon operative – this is my new mission

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Posted by Besoeker 2020-04-09 04:45|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top

#1 The IC is here to obtain important information about what other countries and hostile groups are doing and should not have an opinion on or any involvement with the formation of policies.

Information such as the proliferation of Pandemic Pathogens ?

Posted by Besoeker 2020-04-09 05:09|| 2020-04-09 05:09|| Front Page Top

#2 "I'm an elite intelligence operative."

"Oh. Ok, what do you wish to know ?"

"That's OK. I'll find out on my own."

"But... I could give you a tour...here's a complete..."

"You're raining on my parade, I told you, I'm elite. I'll steal it when I want to."

Posted by Dron66046 2020-04-09 05:43|| 2020-04-09 05:43|| Front Page Top

#3 I wouldn't attribute to incompetence what should rightfully be attributed to sedition and treason.

Posted by JohnQC 2020-04-09 09:17|| 2020-04-09 09:17|| Front Page Top

#4 Time to do some housecleaning & downsizing - would moving HQ to my favorite American shithole Gary, IN do it enough to force a bunch of them to quit? Seems to work with the BLM's recent 'restructuring'. Or is it the few hundred assholes at the top that's the problem?

Besoeker - you opinions are more then spot on in this area. What say you?

Posted by Raj 2020-04-09 10:14|| 2020-04-09 10:14|| Front Page Top

#5 Well Raj, most of these people didn't just recently discover they were working for a corrupt, elitist Deep State bureaucracy, with a secret, unlimited budget, ie, decades long occupants of a beltway whorehouse.

There could be other motivations, but my hunch is some of these fellows were unable to make a post retirement comeback as a civilian annuitant. Hence the late found disdain for their former employer.

Watching former colleagues maintain their clearances and double-dip as 1099's can work on a man's mind. Well, I hate to use the tired arsed term 'follow the money' but...

Posted by Besoeker 2020-04-09 10:45|| 2020-04-09 10:45|| Front Page Top

#6 They'll never move HQ, I take it?

During the Clinton Admin, Holman Jenkins wrote a column responding to their 'Reinventing Government' sloganeering (which was chair shuffling at best, bullshit at worst). It was titled 'Don't Reinvent Government - just get rid of some of it'. That rarely happens unless you do something like move BLM's HQ to western Colorado. Ima guessing that's not going to work with every hack Federal agency.

Posted by Raj 2020-04-09 11:40|| 2020-04-09 11:40|| Front Page Top

#7 IIRC, per the census, here are the wealthiest counties in the US as of 2018:
Median Household Income
1. Loudon (VA) - $139,915
2. Fairfax (VA) - $122,227
3. Howard (MD) - $116,984

Posted by Lex 2020-04-09 12:16|| 2020-04-09 12:16|| Front Page Top

#8 Wouldn't want to be in Howard (MD) county (299 cases) right now, being sandwiched between counties with massive numbers of infected people:
https://coronavirus.maryland.gov/

Posted by Clem 2020-04-09 12:20|| 2020-04-09 12:20|| Front Page Top

#9 Most of my family is buried in Howard County, going back pre Civil War. The gentrification of inner DC has caused the reverse doughnut effect of the 50’s with the urban undesirables now in Prince George’s and Montgomery Counties. When I was a kid visiting family graveyard out in Howard County my dad described it as where elephants went to die. Now the cemetery is surrounded by tacky brick apartments and a gas station.

Posted by NoMoreBS 2020-04-09 15:39|| 2020-04-09 15:39|| Front Page Top

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